Prospects are people who are able, ready and willing to buy. Suspects are merely eligible to do so. – Lester Wunderman Far too much time and money is wasted on marketing to suspects. Misusing data and technology enables marketers to waste time and money at scale. Prospecting with email is one example. Recently I got an […]
A suspect is not a prospect
Filed Under: Heart Marketing Tagged With: Digital Marketing, email marketing, Influence, interruption marketing, lead generation, prospecting, relationship marketing, relevance, Sales, social media marketing
Blogger insights this week: Guest blogging under the microscope
Spotlight: Is guest blogging done? Matt Cutts, head of Google Webspam, started some content marketing buzz this week with his comments on guest blogging run amok. The quote that started tongues wagging (and some hearts palpitating) was: “Stick a fork in it: guest blogging is done; it’s just gotten too spammy. In general I wouldn’t […]
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: blogging, branding, content marketing, email marketing, Facebook, Google, SEO, social media marketing, twitter
Blogger insights this week: The death of content marketing, email and the webpage
Introducing Webb Sightings, a roundup of digital marketing commentary from around the Web Welcome to the first installment of Webb Sightings, a weekly roundup of blogger commentary on digital marketing topics edited by Oliver D. Webb. Check in every Friday to see his favorite posts on marketing insights, analysis, practice tips and commentary from the […]
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: branding, content marketing, direct response, email marketing, social media marketing